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Military service
Service number:
6615
Age:
22
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Infantry (Western Ontario Regiment)
Division:
1ST Bn.
Birth:
December 12, 1894
Death:
June 15, 1915
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of David Thompson, of Ballyworkan, Portadown, Co. Armagh, Ireland.
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Crest
A former member of the Church Lads' Brigade at Mullavilly Company, County Armagh, Ireland. He was one of the first to join this Company and took the deepest interest in its welfare. At the time he left he held the position of Staff Sergeant. 'The Brigade' magazine of August 1915 described him as a most efficient NCO. -
Memorial
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
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Private Thomas Thompson
Digital gallery of
Private Thomas Thompson
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 39 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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